Providers We Love

We are privileged to have received referrals from and be able to coordinate care with many Assisted Living facilities, rehab facilities, and Medicare Home Care and Hospice agencies. Our growth is in large part due to the trust the staff in these organizations have put in our caregivers. We are likewise impressed with them and we are committed to referring to them on a regular basis


Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, Middlebury CT
The Seasons Hospice team believes we should all be born into and leave the world in comfort, warmth and love.

The caregivers at Seasons Hospice hold steadfast to placing patients and their loved ones at the center of hospice care. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, music therapists and volunteers provide compassionate clinical Seasons Hospice is a community-based organization with a mission to find creative solutions that add quality to end-of-life care. It has special programs that go above and beyond traditional hospice care.

Some of their specialty programs include:

A Touch for All Seasons-Uses a person centered approach to improve quality of life through meaningful sensory activities that stimulate the senses, promotes relaxation, and offers comfort and serenity to those living with dementia and other diseases.

Leaving A Legacy- offers people the opportunity to share important stories, family traditions or messages of love via audio or video recordings

Music Therapy- Seasons Hospice has more Certified Music Therapists on its staff than any other hospice in the nation. Even when people are no longer conscious or speaking, we console and comfort them with music. Research has shown that music is the last sense that registers with a dying patient. It is especially helpful in connecting people to happy memories of the past, reducing anxiety, and communicating with people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Seasons Hospice care team is available 24 hours a day by phone to answer questions or assist with a referral.

1579 Straits Turnpike Unit 1-E,
Middlebury, CT 06762

Phone: 203-490-1000
www.seasons.org and www.seasonshospicefoundation.org



Seabury Active Living Retirement Community, and Seabury at Home, Bloomfield
One of Connecticut’s first retirement communities, Seabury has grown impressively from its original facility. The sprawling campus now boasts several individual residences, from apartments to substantial single homes. Their memory care unit is superb. The surroundings provide lovely views in all seasons. An immense fitness facility, including a large pool promotes continued fitness of older adults. Seabury boasts an impressive participation of its residents in the fitness facility. Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. Their home care program provides both Medicare as well as home private duty services for the community and surrounding area. Their health care center boasts state of the art short-term rehab in a beautiful setting. There is excellent coordination with their Home Care agency, which provides nursing, and all therapies, following a comprehensive home safety assessment prior to discharge. It is a privilege to work in co-operation with them.

Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. This program allows seniors to remain in their homes while taking full advantage of the full scope of services at Seabury.

It is a privilege to work in co-operation with our colleagues at Seabury.


Vitas Innovative Hospice Middlebury, Fairfield, Hartford
Vitas Hospice is among our top choices for a wonderful hospice provider. Their beautiful acute care inpatient unit at St Mary’s is just another reason to refer folks there who is struggling with their family members’ care under hospice. Vitas have distinguished itself on its response time, its amazing and unique Veterans program and its commitment to providing continuous care (24 hour care by Vitas staff LPNs or CNAs at Medicare’s expense). Continuous Care is provided by Vitas when clients are actively dying or need short-term symptom management. The vast majority of people have expressed their desire to end their lives at home in peace and comfort. Vitas excel in this area. We are proud to be a referral partner.

Contact information: 1-866-418-4827


SLM Senior Options. Central and western Connecticut
Sheri Morris, MSW, ACSW, LSSW is the owner of this unique senior services company providing a variety of much needed useful interventions for seniors and their families, including home assessment, family counseling, assistance with maximizing insurance benefits, locating good community services, bill payment, households management and much more. Sheri is extremely knowledgeable, personable and helpful.

She will provide a complementary assessment.

Contact her at:

Email: sheri@myseniorcareconnection.com
Phone: 860-658-5440

http://www.myseniorcareconnection.com/



Home Care Advantage, Danbury CT
We are very proud to have Home Care Advantage as a referral partner in western CT. They provide professionally supervised private duty care including personal care, companionship, live in care and respite care for clients with chronic disease as well as those with Alzheimer’s. Their service specialties extend to infants, toddler and school age children.

Their services can be provided in both the clients’ homes as well as in facilities. They will soon be expanding into NY state as well.

For more information about Home Care Advantage, call 203 744 8380


Miller Memorial Community, Meriden CT
Clients and families frequently ask us about “good” facilities for short-term rehab or placement for long-term skilled care. Connecticut is fortunate to have many high quality facilities. We caution families about focusing on the “wrong” aspects. These can include lavishly decorated lobbies, amenities directed at families and visitors, rather than residents and special programs with similar focus. Miller has been a fixture in the Meriden area for decades. Its assets include long-term stable, attentive staff especially the Certified Nurse Assistants who provide much of the care. The friendliness of all clinical and support staff cannot be underestimated. Other brag factors include their short term rehab program where residents receive significantly higher amounts of physical and occupational therapy than the norm over 75% of the time. An added popular feature is the number of private rooms available, an important differentiating factor.

Look beyond appearances when selecting the best in short term rehab or long term skilled care.

360 Broad St # 1,
Meriden, CT 06450
(203) 237-8815



North Star Long Term Care Insurance Advisors
It is well known that the place most desired by seniors to in which to spend their days is their own home. Frequently there are challenges of chronic disease and disability requiting high quality long-term home care. It can be expensive. And confusing. We encourage all our clients and their families to consider purchasing long term care insurance. North Star is a wonderful company that helps seniors and their families sort out options, plans and benefits available. Their knowledgeable advisors are up to date n the best plans available and will help clients select the right fit for themselves or navigate the plan they already own. The process of “going on claim” when services are required can be daunting to families already dealing with the care needs of their loved ones. With over 40 years combined experience in this field there is no challenge they cannot overcome.

To learn more about their services, call:

Beata Everett at 203 493 0318
www.NorthStarLTCi.com


We are happy to report that several folks have told us they use this column when seeking a provider for themselves or their family members. We take our recommendations of providers very seriously. Please consider our favorites in deciding care for yourself or your family members. We would choose any of them for our loved ones. ■